This is not what you think it is. It’s a talking robot, modeled on the human vocal system. And hey, check it out: it can sing! Kinda.
Robots can do many things. They can vacuum our homes. They can assemble our automobiles in huge factories. And, of course, they can play soccer.
President Obama wants to reinvigorate the U.S. economy with a little help from some robots. Lots of robots.
These are kilobots. Tiny three-legged microchips with infrared eyes that point downwards at the table.
This is cool: student Edward Macdonald, working on his thesis at Georgia Tech, created a team of robots that can arrange themselves into pre-set formations with the minimum of movement.
At last! Finally someone has come up with a pair of brain-controlled furry robot cat ears for the masses.
Did you know Japan had singing computers? I sure didn’t, at least until I stumbled on a report from this morning indicating that they not only did have machines that’d outperform half of American Idol’s starry-eyed hopefuls, but that a team of scientists from Tokyo have improved the program’s artificial algorithms to make the machines [...]
If you thought leisure activities were safe from a robot takeover, you might want to watch OptoFidelity’s robot play Angry Birds.
We’ve all been there. Does this sound familiar to you?
Scientists are now studying the walking patterns of spiders, crabs and other invertebrates to figure out how to control motion in robots.
Holding your arm out straight in place for long periods of time could be a strenuous task that many of us can’t undertake without feeling a considerable amount of pain.
